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The black lip pearl oyster resource and pearl culture potential

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Title The black lip pearl oyster resource and pearl culture potential
 
Creator Alagarswami, K
 
Subject Mariculture
Pearl oyster
 
Description The survey of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
had, as one of its objectives, an investigation on the
potential of the region for pearl culture. The Indo-
Australian Archipelago is an important region in the
world distribution of pearl oysters. The Mergui
Archipelago, which is on the eastern bounds of the
Andaman Sea is the area of Burmese pearl culture with
the most valued species Pinctada maxima (Jameson).
Although pearl oysters have been recorded from the
Andamans (Prashad and Bhaduri, 1933 ; Rao, 1970)
there is no information on their distribution and abun
dance as an exploitable resource. On the mainland
of India the major pearl oyster resource is Pinctada
fucata (Gould) and technology for pearl culture in
this species has been developed earlier (Alagarswami^
1974 ; Alagarswami and Qasim, 1973). Ideal sites for
pearl culture, as found in Japan (Alagarswami, 1970)
or Australia (Hancock, 1973), are rare along the main
land coast. The marine ecosystem of the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands with numerous bays has been
considered potential grounds for pearl culture. The
survey carried out during January-April 1978 provided
some information on the pearl oyster resources and their
ecological conditions and helped in a preliminary
appraisal of the islands' pearl culture potential.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1983
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1044/1/Bulletin_34_15.pdf
Alagarswami, K (1983) The black lip pearl oyster resource and pearl culture potential. CMFRI Bulletin, 34. pp. 72-78.